Hitchcock/Truffaut on 35mm
Thursday, December 17 | 8 p.m.
Adapted from Joseph Conrad’s novel, The Secret Agent, Sabotage tells the story of Karl Verloc, a small-time cinema owner in league with a shadowy terrorist cell planning a lethal attack on London’s Piccadilly Circus. His every move is monitored by an undercover Scotland Yard detective who begins to develop an extra-professional interest in Verloc’s lovely, young wife (Sylvia Sidney). Produced in the UK, a few years before Hitchcock’s move to Hollywood, Sabotage demonstrates the brisk pacing and dry wit characteristic of the best British films of the 1930s. Already a master of visual storytelling, Hitchcock reveals a silent world of international conspiracies, backroom meetings, and coded gestures hidden just under the surface of everyday life. Sabotage also features one of the most notorious and excruciating suspense sequences ever committed to film.
Director Alfred Hitchcock 1936 UK 76 minutes NR 35mm
